EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON PLANT SPECIES DENSITY: COMPARING PREDICTIONS WITH EXPERIMENTS

Keywords

Herbivore, Biomass (ecology), Ecology, Fencing, Biology

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